The Tragedy

Chevrolet decided the base Corvette did not have enough power. They fixed that. I love my CT5, but if i did not live somewhere with snow and ice, I might have bought the less practical Corvette. 

Wait a minute: one of my garage bays is long enough for both. If you are a progun Chevy dealer with a spare Corvette you cannot sell, there is a spot open for it!

What a Radical Idea: Focus on the Thugs With the Guns, Not the Guns

 9/9/26 KIRO:

SEATTLE — The Seattle City Council’s Public Safety Committee voted Tuesday to advance a new gun violence reduction strategy, two days after three people were killed in three separate shootings across the Belltown neighborhood.

The resolution, sponsored by Councilmember Maritza Rivera, passed 3-0 with Councilmember Eddie Lin abstaining. It calls for a two-year, $418,000 partnership with the National Network for Safe Communities, a group Rivera said has helped cities including Boston, Baltimore and Philadelphia reduce gun violence by up to 60%.

Uh-oh. What is this strategy?

Vice Chair Rob Saka urged Wilson to include funding for the partnership in her upcoming budget proposal.

“The very definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and expecting different results,” Saka said. “We need to try something different here when it comes to gun violence.”

The resolution is nonbinding but signals the council’s intent to pursue the focused deterrence model, which targets the small number of individuals responsible for the majority of shootings in a given city. 

Dumb Phisherman

I am Mr. Darrin Giglio from NAI Private Investigators, based in New York. I am reaching out to inform you that my firm has been temporarily contracted by a Law Firm in New York to conduct a private investigation related to a court-ordered inheritance claim in which you are a potential beneficiary.

Kindly contact me immediately for further information and details, please contact me directly via my email address at darr20@atomicmail.io. Please note I will not respond from this email address Bikash.Chaurasia@hsrw.org due to the terms established by parties involved in the e-mail. You must contact me via darr20@atomicmail.io, this is very important.

Thank you for your attention to this important matter. I look forward to your prompt response.

Best regards,

Bikash Chaurasia (Corresponding Informant)

 The reply-to is of a real organization: A German Hochschule. I suspect someone is attempting to bring in some extra cash for keggers.

My Shop

Is currently a low-budget version of the warehouse at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark: lots of boxes in need of opening. Machine tools, hand tools, a collection of fasteners to make most hardware stores feel inadequate, telescopes, mounts, telescope accessories, amateur telescope making parts.

I suspect the previous owners never used it except as storage for the solar pool cover.  I bug bombed it a couple days go. That there are no fresh spiderweb tells me that no one survived and no one got in. Spiders are amazingly fast at rebuilding here. My daughter removes them in room corners one day and finds replacements in  couple of days.

I have vacuumed up the webs, spider eggs sacs, sawdust, and dirt. I started wiping all the interior window frames this evening with Simple Green. Once this is done, I will wipe all horizontal surfaces; move boxes out of the way and mop the floor with Simple Green.

Not Quite At "Forensic Astrologer" Level

 9/6/26 New York Post:

Advancements in AI may soon allow humans to talk with animals, but some groups claim the research could be violating the animals’ right to privacy.

Machine learning models are paving the way to catalogue and even mimic the sounds animals make to communicate with each other, with researchers touting the technology as a way to better understand the world of animals.

But “one risk that is currently not taken into account in research ethics is the concern that we might be violating the privacy of animals by collecting data on their vocalizations and movements,” according to researchers in an article published in Springer Nature.

AI can make mistakes. Imagine those mistakes:

Don't eat me.

I love becoming one with your body.

Faster, faster, more stirrups.

From the cloned mammoth: "We want a land acknowledgment."

Apparently the Trump DOJ Investigated and Found This Was Bogus

Supposedly a smart thermostat in a Georgia precinct was relaying voting data to a server in China. If Trump's DOJ had not already examined this and found it unfounded, I would be worried.  But the comment from a Georgia voters that he was going to vote by thermostat next time gave me a laugh.

Okay, Without Checking the Link or Date...

Guess what governor proposed this bill to give a second chance to first time drug offenders?

Yes, Gov. Ronald Reagan.